Jordan is sharply criticizing the Palestinian Authority’s rejection of an initiative to install security cameras on the Temple Mount, veteran Palestinian affairs reporter Khaled Abu Toameh wrote Tuesday in The Jerusalem Post. The proposal was first introduced by Jordan’s King Abdullah II and accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

In an interview with the Iranian newspaper Etemad, former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani admitted that Tehran sought and received assistance in starting its illicit nuclear enrichment program from the notorious Pakistani nuclear bomb dealer A. Q. Khan, according to a translation published by the Foundation for Defense of...

The State of Colorado is the latest US state to sign a new industrial R&D agreement with Israel. Colorado already signed an R&D agreement with Israel in 2010, but the two states decided to renew the agreement following Colorado’s decision to significantly increase budgets earmarked for Coloradoan companies conducting R&D,...

The Iranian government has jailed two prominent poets and sentenced them to 99 lashes each “for shaking hands with members of the opposite sex,” the Associated Press reported Tuesday. The sentences follow a pattern of arrests and convictions targeting activists, journalists and artists that has served as a grim backdrop to...

Dismissing concerns that ties between Israel and the United States are frayed, former adviser to President Barack Obama and veteran diplomat Dennis Ross said that the United States needs “one pillar of democracy and stability” in an increasingly chaotic Middle East, and Israel is that pillar, in an interview published...

The deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) admitted on state television that Iran has suffered growing losses as it has sent more “military advisers” to Syria, the Associated Press reported today. Agence France-Presse provided more details of the losses suffered by Iranian forces. In Tehran, where war dead are revered...